1695

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1660s 1670s 1680s – 1690s – 1700s 1710s 1720s
Years:	1692 1693 1694 – 1695 – 1696 1697 1698

1695 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature – Music – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Jan. 27: Mustafa II.

Year 1695 (MDCXCV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1695
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1695

January–June

January 27 – Mustafa II (1695–1703) succeeds Ahmed II as Ottoman Emperor.

July–December

July 17 – The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament.
August 8 – The Wren Building is started in Williamsburg, Virginia (completed in 1700).
August – Bombardment of Brussels
December 31 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.

Undated

Russia declares war on Turkey.
A £2 fine is imposed for swearing in England.
After 23 years of construction, Spain completes Castillo de San Marcos to protect St. Augustine, Florida from foreign threats.
English manufacturers call for an embargo on Indian cloth and silk weavers picket the House of Commons.
In England, Parliament decides against a renewal of the Licensing Act, putting an end to royal censorship of printing presses and so clearing the way for a free press on the Act's expiry in 1696.
After many years of construction, the Potala Palace is completed.
Gold is discovered in Brazil

Ongoing

Nine Years' War

Births

**1695 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1695 MDCXCV
Ab urbe condita	2448
Armenian calendar	1144 ԹՎ ՌՃԽԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-149 – -148
Bengali calendar	1102
Berber calendar	2645
Buddhist calendar	2239
Burmese calendar	1057
Byzantine calendar	7203 – 7204
Chinese calendar	甲戌年十一月十六日 (4331/4391-11-16) — to — 乙亥年十一月廿六日 (4332/4392-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1411 – 1412
Ethiopian calendar	1687 – 1688
Hebrew calendar	5455 – 5456
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1751 – 1752
- Shaka Samvat	1617 – 1618
- Kali Yuga	4796 – 4797
Holocene calendar	11695
Iranian calendar	1073 – 1074
Islamic calendar	1106 – 1107
Japanese calendar	Genroku 8 (元禄8年)
Korean calendar	4028
Thai solar calendar	2238

February 2 – William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
March 9 - Martín Sarmiento, Spanish scholar and writer (d.1772)
April 8 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (d. 1723)
May 2 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (d. 1766)
May 3 – Henri Pitot, French engineer (d. 1771)
September 3 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (d. 1764)
September 5 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (d. 1770)
October 5 – John Glas, Scottish minister (d. 1773)
November 10 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
date unknown – James Figg, first English bare-knuckle boxing champion (d. 1734)

Deaths

January 4 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France (b. 1628)
February 6 – Ahmed II of Turkey (b. 1643)
February 18 – Sir William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (b. 1650)
March 5 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
April 3 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. c. 1636)
April 5 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer and statesman (b. 1633)
April 13 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer noted for his fables (b. 1621)
April 17 – Sor Juana, Mexican writer (b. c. 1650)
April 27 – John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
April 28 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
June 11 – André Félibien, French architect (b. 1619)
July 8 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist who developed the wave theory of light (b. 1629)
July 18 – Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
August 6 – François de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (b. 1625)
August 12 – Huang Zongxi, Chinese political theorist, philosopher, writer, and soldier (b. 1610)
September – Thomas Tew, English pyrate
November 16 – Pierre Nicole, French Jansensist (b. 1625)
November 20 – Zumbi, Brazilian leader of a runaway slave colony (b. 1655)
November 21 – Henry Purcell, English composer whose works include the opera Dido and Aeneas (b. 1654)
November 22 – Francis Nurse, husband of Rebecca Nurse (accused during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692), b. 1618
November 28 – Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (b. 1632)
November 29 – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
December 8 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
December 12 – Jacob Abendana, British rabbi (b. 1630)